The Faculty provides a range of specialist packages to support you in your independent language study. All the applications listed on these pages are available from any Public Workstation Facility. The CALL Facility provides the advantage of headphones and microphones to enable you to make the most of our audio and video applications.
The Language Centre, in Downing Place, provides access to a very wide range of multimedia material in French: grammatical courses, including Computer-Aided Language Learning material; pronunciation exercises; general listening and viewing material, etc. There are also numerous copies of French films and a range of freely downloadable opencourseware material.
The websites and applications listed here complement those provided on the Department's online resources web page.
JOIN THE MML FRENCH COMMUNITY
- NEW! Departmental Facebook Group
- NEW!Departmental Flickr Group share your images of France and all things French with friends and colleagues.
LISTEN AND WATCH
- Listening Comprehension - FR B3 through the Language Centre Online (Raven access only)
- Encounters (role-play language practice) WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
PRACTISE YOUR GRAMMAR
- GramDef WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- GramEx WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- Grammatical Terminology (Language Centre)
- Passé Simple - Eau de Rose WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
CONSULT A DATABASE
IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION
- Pronunciation Tutor WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- La Phonétique - cours d'introduction
CONSULT A DICTIONARY OR DATABASE
- Le Littré dictionnaire
- Oxford-Hachette Dictionary (English-French) (Cam domain)
- Oxford-Hachette Dictionary (French-English) (Cam domain)
- Classiques Garnier Numerique (Cam domain, Raven password)
- Dictionnaires de l'Académie française [17e-20e s.] (Cam domain, Raven password)
- Dictionnaires des XVIème et XVIIème siécles (Cam domain, Raven password)
- Huguet, Dictionnaire du 16e s. (Cam domain, Raven password)
- Encyclopedie Diderot (Cam domain only)
- Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
PRACTISE TRANSLATION
- TransIt-Tiger - Early Modern French (PJ Ford) WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- TransIt-Tiger - French Part I - II (A Martin) WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- TransIt-Tiger - General English-French (non-MML) WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- TransIt-Tiger - General French-English (non-MML) WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- TransIt-Tiger - What are the Passwords WINDOWS APPLICATION - PWF ONLY
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Le Catalogue collectif de France (CCFr)
